06 December 2015

Lots and lots of Happy Christmas faces all doing what I told them to do... Looking at the Camera! :-)

Cath and Penny.

Emma and Jeanette.

Erica and Becky.

Lizzie and Lynne.

I have no idea who these three are... surely they can't be SCQuilters!! Actually I think it's the Quiz they making faces at not meeeee....

Heather and Jackie.

Irene and Joy.

Jenn and Joy.

Joy and Linda.

There was a lot of 'Joy' at the Pub yesterday :-)

Lyn and Robyn.

How lovely it was to see Marcus and Josie and Claire pop in for lunch.

Marianne and her daughter Ellen.

Pennie and Maggie who flew in from the Philippines just for a day at the Pub.

Michelle, Lissa and Christine who caught the train from Bathurst just for a day at the Pub with us all.

Jenn on the right and Selina in a DRESS! I've always loved dresses like this! Mmmm... don't think I'd get away with it nowadays though.

Stephanie, Annie and Marilyn.

Marianne and Glynis.

Brenda and Maggie.

DONATION!
As a one off Christmas Donation, Annie sent around a tin to collect Gold Coins for the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Foundation. Annie reports that $100.00 was collected from the SCQuilters on Saturday which means we can buy:-
2 x Dress Nightgown and Bedding - $60.00
20 x Pairs of Rubber Slippers - $40.00 This is truly wonderful.

Explanation:-

Our patient's healing starts as soon as they arrive, when they are given a nightgown to wear during their stay. On the day they leave, they are presented with a new dress to celebrate their return home. $30.00 is all we need to buy a dress, nightgown and bedding for one patient.

When they arrive at the hospital they almost always come barefoot. For just $40 we can buy 20 pairs of plastic slippers for patients who arrive with no shoes and they get to walk home to thier village with shoes, some walking over 3 or more days.

Annie found this little book just recently, which once belonged to her Grandmother... it's dated 1916 and it's instructions for knitting socks for our Soldiers away at WW1. What a precious little find,

Linda's great Christmassy Quilt that has had a past, it's been reversed sewed and now it's a beaut Quilt!

I was so admiring of this little beauty and especially the Quilting done by Emma... I can't remember who's quilt it was! Help.....

Glynis has made this 'Orange' quilt for her sister...and the left overs as well. Wonderful machine quilting Glynis!

Joy made this wall hanging and the three bags below for Christmas gift giving.

Emma wearing the same colours as her lovely Star Quilt.

Marianne's Four Patch Quilt for our Challenge.

It took me a moment to see the Cat theme on the front and it's on the back as well.

Selina's fantastic Hexagon quilt, I like different looking hexagons!

Annie standing up for those in the 'Hookers Corner' with this beautiful blanket.

I just had to take a photo of Lyn's fabulous outfit! Wow!

While we were Show and Telling, the family on the table behind were clapping loudly and asking to see our quilts... I went over to them, told them that we were the Southern Cross Quilting Group who met Online, there were over 2,000 of us, all Aussie's or Kiwi's living all over Australia and the World who love to get together when we can to sit and chat and sew and are willing to share our needles! The loved the sound of that... so I asked them if I could take their photo to put on our Blog which will be seen by a fair number of our Group and more... They agreed wholeheartedly... so here we have the Best Audience at the Pub for 2015!

There were three Winner's of the imaginary Gold Star yesterday, but the Winner of the much coveted 'Triple' Gold Star has to go to Marianne! Who knew Marianne had such a wonderful grasp of languages! Especially Hawaiian, Russian, Welsh and Danish! Well done Marianne, we must have a good old gas bag in Welsh next time we meet up :-))))

The other winning Teams were. Team - Marilyn and Annie and Stephanie as well as Team- Michelle, Lissa, Maggie and Christine.Here are the Answers of our Christmas Quiz!

1.Who said,
'Bah Humbug'?What book is
it from?Author?

Ebenezer
Scrooge. Christmas
Carol, Charles Dickens.

2.Where
do wooden Nesting Dolls originate from? Japan

3.The Thimble
is thought to have originated from? Holland

4.In the song
'The Twelve Days of Christmas'… my true love gave to me Nine….? Ladies
dancing.

5.What do the
numbers 6561165611 represent?

The years between the same day you
were born on matching the same date you were born on.

6.When she wrote the book 'How to
make an American Quilt' how many years had Whitney
Otto been a quilter?None

7.Name the Reindeer who have names
beginning with D? Donner, Dasher, Dancer.

Welcome to the Sydney SCQuilters Blog.

On the First Saturday of each month Southern Cross Quilters, (SCQuilters) from all over Sydney and Australia and the World, if they are in town, meet at the 'Blue Gum Hotel'in Waitara in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

On the Third Saturday of each month we meet at the 'Hotel Pennant Hills', also north of the City of Sydney, right next to Pennant Hills Station and the Patchwork shop 'Craft Depot'.

We have our own comfortable room so we sit, chat, sew, show and tell and buy our coffee, drinks and lunch from the Bar and Bistro.10am to about 3:30pm.

Everyone goes home happy and just that little bit inspired.Come along if you are in town, we'd love to meet you and see your work.

This Blog is run by Pennie Griffiths with a little help from Glynis Thompson.